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pyotr filipivich wrote:
> 
> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >
> >   The longest I've seen snow last around here, was a couple hours.
> >I've only seen snow twice, in the last 25 years.
> 
>    Well, you poooor thang  B-)
> 
>    I see it often.  Usually way up in the mountains, where I don't
> have to drive in it, if I don't want to.
>    Now two years ago I took a job in eastern Washington, started in
> January.  Going over the pass one night, the traffic advisory radio
> warned of the bad roads conditions.  I kept waiting for them to get
> "bad".  As long as the pavement was mostly clear, or just wet, that
> isn't "hazardous".  I mean, not like packed snow and ice with
> blowing snow and no chains.
>    Anyway, I just chugged along, following the big trucks or the
> snow plows.
>    Wasn't till I got out of the mountains an on "the flat" that it
> started to get cold.  Ever try to wash the road spray off your
> windshield when it's about 26 degrees out?  Fahrenheit?  At two
> o'clock in the morning?  Finding an open station was the hard part.
> But oh, the colors - the star!   I could really get to like living
> over there.


   Try clean the ice off your windows at -40 and no gas stations for 100
miles. :(  OTOH, I saw the Northern Lights lighting up the entire sky,
bright as day.


I got caught one night in a blizzard near Cincinnati.  It was a little
over 30 miles to get home.  It took over eight hours, and it used a full
tank of gas in my truck.  I was more concerned about the dumb ass semi
drivers blowing me off the road, like they did to a lot of other
vehicles.  One passed me while I was on a patch of ice and spun the van
720 degrees and it tried to roll over.